While harvesting some of my last hot peppers (it's been a great year for peppers), I found a spider suspended between some zinnias and an errant tomato. It was a gorgeous, giant spider with striking ...

My partner held a photography workshop at our house a couple of weeks ago. This involved 27 people stalking our native wildflower and vegetable gardens in search of prey for their cameras. One of the ...

A: Some of the most common spiders in gardens are the Argiope spiders. They are also commonly called garden spiders. There are many species, but most have distinctive yellow and black abdomens and ...

“Don’t use that door,” I told my husband as he was about to go outside. “You’ll break the spider’s web.” “What web?” he asked absentmindedly, adding that he’d already gone out and come back through ...

Upon an Arc of White. The “writing spider” aka yellow garden orb-weaver (Argiope aurantia) is the beloved spider in the well-known children’s story “Charlotte’s Web.” The black and yellow arigope ...

The Journal of Arachnology, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 371-383 (13 pages) Two species of orb-web spiders, Argiope aurantia Lucas and Argiope trifasciata (Forskal) were used to analyze how ...

Harmless black and yellow garden spiders are common in Texas landscapes and eat nothing but insects. Lately, my woods have been full of spiny orb-weavers, marbled orb-weavers and arrowhead-orb weavers ...

During the lazy days of summer, nothing in nature seems to be moving or doing much of anything. However, autumn feels like everything in nature is on the move or rushing to prepare for winter. Many of ...

During the lazy days of summer, nothing in nature seems to be moving or doing much of anything. However, autumn feels like everything in nature is on the move or rushing to prepare for winter. Many of ...

Sexual cannibalism is often hypothesized to be an extreme manifestation of sexual conflict, yet we still lack a good understanding of the underlying motivation in most species. Hypotheses for the ...